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Rider vs Squire - What's the difference?

rider | squire |

As a proper noun rider

is more often spelled ryder.

As a noun squire is

a shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight or squire can be (obsolete) a ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.

As a verb squire is

to attend as a squire.

rider

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • one who rides, often a horse or motorcycle
  • (politics) a provision annexed to a bill under the consideration of a legislature, having little connection with the subject matter of the bill
  • (by extension) Something extra or burdensome that is imposed.
  • * A. S. Hardy
    • This [question] was a rider which Mab found difficult to answer.
  • an amendment or addition to an entertainer's performance contract, often covering a performer's equipment or food, drinks, and general comfort requirements
  • A small, sliding piece of aluminium on a chemical balance, used to determine small weights
  • (UK, archaic) An agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveller.
  • (obsolete) One who breaks in or manages a horse.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (math) A problem of extra difficulty added to another on an examination paper.
  • An old Dutch gold coin with the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.
  • * J. Fletcher
    • His mouldy money! half a dozen riders .
  • (mining) Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.
  • (shipbuilding) An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen the frame.
    • (Totten)
  • (nautical) The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.
  • A small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard.
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) A robber.
    • (Drummond)

    Derived terms

    * white rider (Conquest) * red rider (War) * black rider (Famine) * pale rider (Death)

    See also

    * allonge * driver * germane * passenger

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    squire

    English

    (wikipedia squire)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
  • A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
  • A male attendant on a great personage.
  • A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
  • (UK, colloquial)

    • Verb

    (squir)
  • To attend as a squire
    • (Chaucer)
  • To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection
    • to squire a lady
    (Goldsmith)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) See square.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.
  • * 1598 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene)
    • But temperaunce, said he, with golden squire , / Betwixt them both can measure out a meane.
  • * 1598 , (William Shakespeare), (w, Love's Labour's Lost) , V, 2, 474.
    • do not you know my lady's foot by the squire .
  • *
    • as for a workman not to know his axe, saw, squire , or any other toole, […].
  • * 1628 , (William Shakespeare), (w, The Winter's Tale) , IV, 4, 348.
    • twelve foot and a half by the squire .

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